Seven links by 7PM on Wednesdays:
- RS McCain needs donations for his journalistic trip to New York’s district 23. An interesting line item for his expenses is two packs of cigarettes per day. I hope those are for share.
- The clients’ guide to web design. This kind of tutorial is essential in expectations management. I’ll be expanding on this matter down the road.
- Tom McMahon’s 4-block world has always been a source of great humor. Just start at the front page and keep scrolling.
- Ditto SondraK’s Knowledge is Power, which, by simple linkage or judicious use of emphases, is able to turn any liberal news into a source of humor.
- Jeffro asks, “how low is too low?” The basic skills for clients need to be reinforced. Clients should not dare deign to expect us to mainain sites in perpetuity.
- Here’s an interesting article I got found from Twitter about the benefits (or lack thereof) of extended steady-state cardio. It seems a little more geared towards slightly more, erm, fit people, but once a fatty reaches his plateau it’s time to rethink methods.
- Palin, Oprah, and the politics of personality — commentary by C4P, with some interesting insights on Oprah’s “community.”
October 21 2009, 19:07 | Filed under: General | No Comments |
October 19 2009, 23:40 | Filed under: Photography | No Comments |
Some time last week, Rush Limbaugh joined a group bidding for ownership of the St. Louis Rams. In response, the Left circulated made-up quotes that purport him to be racist. Rick Sanchez of CNN picked it up and ran with it. Rush’s supporters gallantly defended him and went on the attack, demanding of the Left proof of this quote. Of course there’s no such proof; the quotes regarding his supposed racism do not actually exist. What they have created is the appearance of racism. In their apologies they state such unapologetic ideas to the effect of “well, the quote wasn’t true, we’re sorry, but man he’s quite the racist anyway and you have to look at what he says. RACIST!” (Read more…)
October 16 2009, 22:15 | Filed under: Politics | No Comments |
Seven links at 7PM on Wednesdays:
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October 11 2009, 12:30 | Filed under: Photography | No Comments |
We all know which road good intentions pave. I’ve found the Peace Prize offensive since Arafat received it, but the history of its absurd recipients stretches all the way to Kissinger and Teddy Roosevelt. The extra absurdity of BHO receiving the award is over the fact that he has done nothing beyond voicing his good intentions.
Earlier this morning when I found heard the news, I called it an “A For Effort” award. It’s one that turns the very meaning of an award on its head. Awards celebrate achievements. A study of the list of recipients have shown a degradation in standards, not so much from a political perspective, but from one of achievement versus potential. It’s as if those who decide these things gave up on seeking actual results, and started handing out token awards for trying.
That former laureates do not feel denigrated by this does not mean that their legacy is not.
October 9 2009, 19:00 | Filed under: Politics | No Comments |
I’ve moved the weekly roundup to Wednesdays, mainly so that my Sunday photos can sit up top for a few days. Seven items delivered by 7PM:
- Deep Glamour reacts to the FTC disclosure rules, which prompts me to put up my own policies page. (Found from Dustbury.)
- Venomous Kate encounters an incontinent, obese woman.
- Inside Charm City, published by my friend Jeff Quinton, has been on top of a sex-toy event in UMCP that goes beyond the basics of safe sex and use.
- James Joyner responds to Paul Krugman, on the politics of spite.
- A fifteen-year-old British girl appears before parliament and rightfully lambastes Gordon Brown. Conservatives for Palin, however, forgot to note that our fifteen-year-old children are fat, lazy, and preoccupied with video games, feel-good activties, and singing praises to Barry Oh, so they don’t care.
- The City That Breeds reviews Mo’s Seafood, and has a nasty encounter with some raw clams.
- “Do you have any idea who I am? I can let you slit my throat and not blink an eye.” The Anchoress quotes a story and reflects on Barry Oh’s seeming desire to just tell the American people, “don’t you know who I am?”
October 7 2009, 19:00 | Filed under: General | No Comments |

I don’t remember when I first stepped into Buddy’s Crabs and Ribs on Main Street, Annapolis, but I remember going to brunch there today. I like Sunday brunch, and I’ve gone different places in the past trying to find great food, but ever since I went to Buddy’s, I’ve stopped looking. It’s the go-to place for brunch for tourists and locals alike. Many a midshipman goes there to eat with friends, family or significant others. It delivers the biggest bang for the $12.95 that you pay. The delivery isn’t just in the quality, quantity and diversity of the food—including an omelette bar, carving station, fresh oysters, heck, they have lox ferchrissakes—but the friendly service, warm ambiance and sheer energy of the place make for a great experience to start a day of hitting the town.
Buddy’s can be habit-forming, or, to use a less loaded turn of phrase, it has the makings for a regular Sunday tradition. It’s become one of mine.
(Disclaimer: I have received no free meals nor financial compensation towards this rave review. This is not a sponsored post.)
October 4 2009, 23:45 | Filed under: Photography | 2 Comments |
Today’s news of the Rio de Janeiro winning the bid for the 2016 Olympic games doesn’t require one of my thousand-and-a-half-word essays. Just a few points for posterity tonight: first, it’s not un-American to have rooted against the games being held in Chicago. Its residents don’t want the games there. The residents of Illinois outside the Mayor Daley’s political complex resent the effort. Second, the Games would have produced a net financial loss for the state (and the federal government). Chicago is a corrupt slum, and putting that much opportunity in the hands of the kleptocrats would be a disservice to so many.
Rio will now be faced with the issues that come with hosting such an event, including the infrastructure, the graft, the bribery, the influx of foreign money… But they also get the chance to rise above these issues. They can prove that they can keep the Olympic infrastructure a national treasure for generations to come, and not a blighted area like some other host cities’.
We know Chicago can’t do that. It can’t because it’s the city that has elected Daley repeatedly. It’s the city that in one weekend had more murders than Iraq. It’s the city that despite so much going into it, so little has gone out. Other US cities could have done better, but they didn’t ask for it. Chicago, with its long-standing culture of mismanagement and machine politics, never deserved it.
October 2 2009, 23:30 | Filed under: Politics | 1 Comment |
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